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Show rCT8 ADVERTISING KATES display advertising rates (49) cent an Inch par Issue mt Inch by the moalb four ,I co local advertisers. Tran-- " canu an Inch par iasua. ft (50) No Ia h 11 par cant additional. the advertising accepted for front) pace. Flrat pace raadara jpaty-fl- v til) canu par Una an kLa nt r yoa books of several denomlns-lfcpt In stock. The Sun. -- yj AN INDEPENDENT Volume 9, Number 40 II OF BIG III IBIS SECTHm DRAWS NEAR ac. NEWSFAPEB Week Hading March pay owners would be put to au exense CASE MOVING SLOWLY burden beyond their capacity to meet, Pierce puts in liis word to show that no such fears should be entertained. Jury As Yet Unsecured la Third of the Not written with any idea that the! Mine Murder Coses. conuuunieation was to be published, it j becomes yet the more valuable as a Trial opened last Tuesday over at real indication of the idea prevailing Castle Dale for Mike Pagilakis, third with the actual man on the ground. to face court of the sixteen men arThe Sun takes pleasure in giving it to rested last July charged with particiits readers. pation in the shooting up of a train on There seems to he doubt in the minds the Utah railway on June 12th. Depof some people possibly yourselves uty Sheriff Webb was shot through Included as to the ability of the land- the breast by a rifle bullet, and already owners In the Price River Water Con- two of the accused have beeu convictservation district to pay the bonded that will be Incurred if the ed of murder. Fete Kukia ia serving Pleasant Valley dam Is built. As 1 un- on a life sentence and Mike Zulakis is derstand the proposition It would mean doing a ten years term in the state a first mortgage Hen of from twenty Both eases were tried in these prison to twenty-fiv-e dollars an acre with Interest on that amount. The bonds to le Carbon county in the closing months retired in twenty years. Now, gentle- of last year. Change of venue for the men, it will be easy. If you will have third ease was granted not because of patience to follow me through 1 think the claim of the 1 can prove it to you. defending attorneys 1 came to Price in March. 1911. 1 had that a fair trial could not be had here about two thousand dollars In money but for the reason that so many and about a hundred dollars worth of available veniremen hod been examinhousehold goods. Bines that time 1 have bought eighty acres of land of ed in the previous trials that it was which seventy are irrigable. Some of becoming increasingly difficulty sethis was raw and some partly improv- cure a jury for new rases. King ft ed. About thirty-fiv- e acres In alfalfa. who are defending also 1 paid from $50.00 to 152.60 an acre Schulder with interest of from 7 to 10 per cent made strenuous efforts to reject any on deferred payments for this land, juror who might lie an emwhich you will notice is from two to prospective around ploye any of the coal ranijw. Inthree times the proposed bonded istrirt Attorney Dalton has all along debtedness. There is a federal farm loan of a thousand dollars on part of strongly eomliatted any insinuations this land at the present time. Cash on that the people of this county were so hand and marketable crops at present biased that it would be unfair to place prices will Just about balance this loan. Live stock, machinery. Implements and these defendants on trial at IMce, but Improvements 1 have put on the prop- agreed for the reasons mentioned that erty Just about or a little better than the present cases should go to Emerv balance the cash 1 had when 1 came to afPrice In 1918. Now here le the point 1 county. Up to late thia (Friday) Ihix ternoon efforts to fill the jury wish to make clear. This land has paid two or three times were still continuing. With four days the proposed bonded Indebtedness In thus taken up it looks aa though it was five years. Of course part of the time I received war prices for my produce, to be about as difficult to find jurors hut the last two years have been lean who will be acceptable to the defense enough for the most pessimistic. The in the Emery capital aa here in Carand has produced more than this state- bon. Sam A. King haa put in considment sets forth for there have been Inevitable losses. For example one year erable of kis time this week id heapI lost all the second crop of hay on ing abuse on mine guards and the oj- thirty acres and other losses which would only he tedious to mention. An- their property during the strike last other Important point is that thia Ityid has done this with present inadequate year, lie colled on one talisman to dewater supply. Therefore I claim that clare aa to what occupation his son given a full water right and twenty be following in one of the coal years time to pay this proposed bond- might and met the reply that the ed Indebtedness is a snap. camps Several of the Now, I hope you will understand the boy is a mine guard. motive that has prompted this letter. in jail at Price have been prisoners It la by no means boastfulness. In dos- promised a trip out in the air by ing I wish to make a plea that you as directors of thia district proceed bold- King, when they will he called as witly, having faith In yourselves and this nesses in the present ease. Quite a community. Then I sm sure that not retinue of attorneys, witnesses and only this community hut our children other necessary court attaches have and their children will look with approval on the foundations of property been added to the population of Castle that you will have laid In an adequate Dale. It is expected that another day water supply. will see the court taking testimony and the case regularly under way. Agriculture Will Boom. the and engineerFollowing up legal OWENS SLAYS H1NKIN ing conclusions, the report also puts out a fine survey of the lands as crop producers. The soil is declared to be of good quality for irrigated farms Drunken Quarrel Up In Spring Canyon both physically and chemically. WhereBrings Abont Murder. Tlwparatorv to opening negotiations areas which alfor the sale of the bonds voted last De- of the district are some water full a right under Price the of enjoy landowners ready cember by the district Conservation Water bly Binr" of directors has just received a on the various features of the nd era have at present no water at alL x prnjWt The document of sixty-siWith the operation of the new system which in covering all the points ar. in full swing all lands in the district be of by investigated necessity pMb which it is possible to ran water at Mective buyer of these bonds on on will receive a full allotment as has all a fund of information been already decreed to them in acou Ua(lycloses conditions and special gtneral rethe whole matter both from cordance with the owners own sh itt engineering and eeonomie stand-!- - quests and engineers estimates as to which is of unbounded inter-th- the necessities of each parcel of land No canals are fig-i- n people of this locality, be-- n taken separately. the project since these in most it ia an exposition of the to show development that most ensue eases already exist. Figures seasons after the in- how the burden of payment will fall on a venr witMn few to stallation of the dam north of the landowners under the bond issue up will impound water in the ts contemplated are interesting. That ?n may calculate for any up in Pleasant Valley. any laddowner his The Sun presents the costa, Pj wared by the engineering firm of year based on the asn, IT estimates, engineers Ullrich this ft Jonagle summary cost for each acre-fothe that sumptions up first the verification of the or allotted with the as water of which have been gone steps tLi5ugh in the oiganization of the dis- - amount of bonds and other conditions Under state laws as existing and as stated, will be: il. ided np to the 1921 legislative ses-a-n ? Amount of bond issue 97SO.OOO.OO election for the organization (s) i Ufa of bonds. twenty years 0 per cent is project was held in June two (c) Interest on bonds. of principal at ago. Csnvaaing this the Carbon (d) Repayment II each year for the firet ten commissioners found that Iand-- j wrtty years starting with the eleventh had for voted and but 29,656 WCTer year. of water alloted to land, hundred and ninety-tw- o against (e) Amount t, deliversixty thousand Information of the district, and that ed at headgates of the several Thavne, Carl R. Marcusen and TTjtry G. Mathis had been elected as JBractors from the three diviaions into which the district is for such purpose separated. It took until December of ia i .tat same year to get confirmation pro-J- j readings completed in district court, sftsr whiih the board of directors be-to move toward an election for the issuance of bonds to raise money fey carrying out plans for storing and ' fi ha Attributing water to the lands under the project. As finally nwili. ' Aoeided, after very carefully ronsider-In- g olW other schemes, there will be built vit st a point on Fish Creek a dam which ivora , will hold back into Pleasant Valley a t L. i large lake, the required structure be- a of about five hundred feet length w h lag with a maximum height from its foun Ds From this table any landowner may Nation of eighty-fivThia is declared what the cost will be for any figure moat the ideal damsite jg' JtaJbe perhaps given year by taking bis allotment and tt,Utah. both for furnishing large the total for that Wgi with small construction and for multiplying it by shown. as John Jones has If year favorable geologic formation to insure uoti acres to which fifty-fiv- e of the works. With a max-- . thirty-seve- n psnanenre OgK has been allotted, his assessvmoa depth of sixty feet of water in acre-fement will be : tW reservoir the total storage will be E5 times f .86 1XJ1495 t, 48.75 First the year acreage of jf'. 55 times .83 45.65 year tagged land figuring at alighfly over Sixth 113.85 times 9.07 'er cultivated and irrigated abundant e thousand. A considerable por-o- f Eleventh year ..65 97.35 Fifteenth year 55 times 1.77 of the ordinary farm varieties Yesterday (Thursday) evening about this has heretofore been used Twentieth yr. 55 times 1.396.. 76.73 crops been raised. A considerable part 7 oclock e killing occurred on the have grazing and forage crops. The point juat Dam of Preferred has been proven to be well Spring Canyon road Bruce the land of Type. ind also is traversed at Hiukin aimve Storrs in which present by truck and fruit suited for While reserthe gardening of storage capacity tracks of the Scofield branch of met death when e piece of an automoDenver and Rio Grande Western voir is rated .t a hundred and sixteen orchards. Alfalfa seed, potatoes, hay, bile spring such as ia used in changing oats are crops that do rewejj a a county highway. To thousand feet, the actual water as al- wheat and welL Ted Owens in such tires w as hurled must be used lotted deas the basis Sugar beets so far a manner aa to by for markably ure inundation rights for these Hinkins head. pierce small in been raised have costs. The annual use of patches. From what can be learned it seems that only iTnebes and to remove- the lanes of termining acres. More 4 Wff10 to points above the level of the water will be just about sixty thous- Last year there were fifty the affair was the outcome of a drunkand (actual allotment 61,787), thus will be put in this year. Tests of this en waters accounts a pounded for large quarrel, each of the participants beconsections have the storage cost $12.50 for each crop from various an occupant of a ear containing proportion of the money needed to ear- making ing t, comparing very favorably clusively demonstrated that the soil is other people: The altercation had apout thescheme of putting the reser-ly for the with well other large projects in the state, industry. Excepadapted in this ideal location. reached its end when Owens jt : apir A such as Piute, Sevier Bridge, Straw- tional opportunities are offered by the parently to his own auto, secured the returned n Project of Big Proportions. berry, East Canyon Creek and others, district ior the handling of feeder cat- ntissle and threw it, striking Hinkin, Something like ninety thousand dol-- , in which the eoets range from nine to tle. The adjacent coal mining camps who was in the other ear. After this a will fro to the purchase of the sixteen dollars. No maintenance charge are an ever present market for large r D. brother of Hinkin s attacked Owens, 'lynches to be flooded. Relocating the will be encountered outside of the ex- quantities of produce and dairy goods, and the latter was pretty badly beaten W- xmlway with the company themselves pense for an operator during the irri- practically all of which must at pres up. He was taken to a nearby hospital doing the work will cost $246,000.00. gation season to release the amount of ent be shipped in from the outside. where and from .The reporting engineers opine that the water as called for from day tq day. Five towns within the district present which his head was sewedtonp remove him was impossible it No dairy 'Water district can make a considerable A discussion as to the best kind of dam about the same condition. Of Sheriff at a late hour today saving by taking this on themselves. to ppt up st the selected site goes ex- or poultry establishments of any con- Denting and County (Friday). Ruggeri Attorney tk. change the county highway will cost haustively into the subject, and the sequence now exist in the district spent a large part of today at the . , about Fifteen thousand dollars. As the conclusion is drawn that a multiple These interlying communities could scene.- A couple of the other occupants route will shorten the distance arch concrete structure is the proper consume most of the fruit, truck gar- of the Owens car are f being held at the Colton and Scofield by about type. Insufficiency and unsuitability den stuff, poultry and dairy products the outcome office sheriffs awaiting J'Kht miles it is thought that a part of material at the damsite eliminates that could be raised in the district Ex of the investigation. this cost may be borne by the the earth construction, while available cellent railroad facilities supply quick construction of the dam re- material for a loose rock dam is cov- transportation for perishable products GOING TO TRANSLATE quires $206,612. Another expense to ered by such an overburden of waste that might have to seek an outside President Anthony T. Ivins of the taken care of is the buying in of as to be economically impractical Nar- market. The project will open excel- Latter-da- y Saints church first presithe Carbon Land, Water and Power rowed to a decision, then, between a lent facilities for canning establishreceived a 'number last dency Tuesday Company rights to water and the old gravity masonry type and the con- ment and a sugar factory. The new of documents written in Spanish re' down in Mammoth iv.ireservoir in the Gooseberry. crete multiple arch, the engineers find railway contemplated to ran garding the Mexican confiscation of ; The reservoir in which this water is to that masonry would be 13 per rent to Emery county will cut through a lands held by members of the Mormon ne of the lands choice stored into lies ; more expensive, with a safety fartor at a considerable right portion of Dublan and the Palomis Catfrom the lands on which it ia of only three as against eight for the the heart of the areas which will likely colony He ia going to translate tle company. be distributed. Price river flows concrete. Even with other types per- develop into the sugar beet section. so as to be able to them into English :own a narrow canyon from Colton as fectly feasible the concrete dam is the action the Mexican govof study south in four counties the r Price City, there being a com- - much to be preferred on aroount of its Except for ernment. oris state of the Utah central part - pkralively narrow strip of farm lands permanency and larger safety faetor. traversed during the last six miles Differences in cost of the masonry ganized for the statewide Clean Home Gasoline have advanced a half this distance and a goodly part of and concrete are found in that the for- and Clean City campaign beginning a cent a priceswholesale at Salt Lake gallon was announced it the by so embraced are aufiplied by mer would cost for dam and spillway yesterday, City and elsewhere in the state this irrigation canals and rights. At $232,308, while the preferred concrete Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce week. Tank wagon jirices are twenty-thre- e Pnce the valley opens and a couple will be $106,612. With all these fig- yesterday. cents and service station twenty-fivsor miles south of thisup city attains a ures asemhled to show that the project Dont borrow The Bun. Subscribe. from east to west of about eight is well within an expense limit, which rv ; tniles. might be said that starting ran be taken care of by the farmer on ve strict covers practically a his land, it becomes of particular in- BEWARE OF PROVO TOWN LOTS GRAFTER mtretch of country eight by twelve terest to jteruBe a letter just sent in to takes its boundaries over the directors of the district by one of JnvfV. rry county for something like the actual residents on a farm in the tnree miles and from there I notice in the newspapers over the state that some advertisements in it merges area to be benefited. Living under Mito lands under local the conditions of the past five years the form of news items that intimate that a blown as Steel City irrigation the spillway in without aid of the water from the com- and located near Provo is being more or leu identified with the Columbia 1 : Canyon these waters must ing supply, E. E. Pierce recites experi- Steel corporation, writes an official of that company to The Sun from Salt f : We.would appreciate it if The Sun ira.yerse the bed of the creek as far as ences which are undoubtedly typical Lake City under date of last Monday. Colton iierbaps nine miles here to of what may he expected from the oc- would announce that the Colombia Steel corporation haa nothing whatever to mter the Price river for a of these farms. It appears do with what is known as Steel City neither the corporation nor any of ite j n before touching the first limits of cupation i' that the elapse of time since the bond officials having any connection whatever with this project the lands covered hv the district at a election without any sale having been From the way these articles are worded one would infer that the Columpoint a couple of miles above Helper. arranged has developed a belief that bia Steel corporation is back of this tonwrite scheme. It is possible that withHowever, most of the farms to reap a the directors were hesitant to go ahead in the near future the Columbia will have a townrite near its plant but in thia rom these waters lie south with the Financial operation, and in com it would not sell any lota or houses. On the other hand it would rent these of Price. Embraced in the boundaries order to dispel any idea that the land- to its employes st a nominal sum." r ive sur-WSCi-ng e won-dar- Seo-wlii- ch wHorir ot 3r'i -- one-ten- th u Jt)s acre-fee- L - : em-hp- ed 3 e. r et acre-fee- ata v - acre-fee- A' j - - '"w be-twe- eonn-Actu- al tr dis--tan- ee 1 . .. 'iT pre-,-rio- na -- e. .It THf - , . sys-ro- sub-divisi- on m -- ten-mi- le - - - I 2, 1923 Wedding announcements. p UIH1H OR LICT1TKXFELD. Feb. 25.-- Germany for the first time yesterday listened to a pro itram of music transmitted by ra- die from the I'nited States. Tba experimental atrelesa station at Beehof at C oVIoi-piked up the voice of liisa EJith Iteimett singing in a department store in Newark, N. J, Moth the vocal and instrumental tones were perfectly audible. JM t iv )F THIS COUNTRY AND GERMANY TALKING BY BADIO UTAH com PK0IETI1 nm per Tba . Su CRAWLS JUST ABOVE w him hark . The Sun Spevlul Service. stood that delivery of the acreage for WASHINGTON, 1). C Fvh. 26. For the seven days ending with Janu- tile initial units probably will bs made ary 10th the mines of Ituh worked hut within the next few days. While plana 50.1 per eent of fulltime rapacity. To- sre being formulated for darting contal losses front all eauses were 40.9; struction of the plants work ia being transportation disability, 1.7; lubor pushed at other Utah properties of the ahortagu, 0.2; mine disability, 5.3, and ooniany. The survey for the branch no market losses, 42.7 er cent. Liuring from tlie Cedar City line of the Loa the Mine iriod the properties of Colo- Angeles and Salt Lake to the iron holdrado had 57.9, New Mexico 38.4 and ings of the Columbia in Iron county ia rent of fulltime ou- to be started the first of next week. Wyoming 49.2 tput The total soft coal raised during Some development of the iron holdings the week ended February 17th the also will he started immediately. For country over is estimated at 10.549,000 the most part it ia planed to employ ! net tons, a decline of 239.0(H) from the opeu iit mining and steamshovela in revised estimates of 10,788, 000 for the breaking and handling the ore. The week preceding. Early returns on ear development work to lie undertaken at loadings last week show 39,280 ears on thia time probably will consist chiefly Monday, 30,177 on Tuesday and 31,392 at stripping away the light overburden on Wednesday, thus indicating a rate and make some open ruts to facilitate of production lower than in the week ojierations. Carlton County railroad, the branch before and a probable total output from 104100,000 to 10,400,000 tons. The whirh ia to serve the coal camp of Coallrail movement to New England and lumbia and also owned by the corpoEastern New York for the week ended ration, ia ex)iected to be in operation two-thirFebruary 17th included 2825 ran of by May 1st. The grading is about befinished and it ia planned to bituminous and 3632 of anthracite forwarded through the princial gateway! gin laying rails in about ten day. The over the Hudson river and through work of ojtening up the property ia Rouse Point. There was little change progressing at a very satisfactory rot in the volume of anthracite moved, but and the management plans to have the a considerable decrease in bituminous mine fully equipjted and in operation aa compared with the week preceding. by August 1st. As soon as the mine is The production of beehive coke contin- ready it ia intended to place coal on ued tin the increase during the week the market until such time aa the ovended February 17lh. The total out- - ens are in service. Aa soon aa the dv- estimated from reorta of can ens are completed it ia expected that iiut, by the priiiciiutl coke carriers the entire production of the mine will and in part on rejxirts of producers, be required to care for coke needs. was 362,000 net tons against 35!), (HH) in the week before. The princi)al inSEVERAL GOOD TALKS crease was in the Pennsylvania and Ohio region and there was also an increase in the Southern regions whereas Price Rotations Discnss Vital Matters At Weekly Banquet. output decreased in the West. The output in the Connellaville region whs At the weekly banquet of Price Ro- 2G6,3G0 tons as eomjnired with 259,780 in the week preceding and a net gain tariana last Tuesday evening it was an-b- y Preside of a hundred and twenty-fuu- r ovens in blast. Production of anthracite in the that Dr. Charles E. Barber is soon to week ended February 17th declined to Ite in thia city and will give a talk on 1,828, 0(H) net tons, including mine fuel, hygiene and physical culture. L. A. local aalea and dredge and wasliery McGee discussed present city ordinances and urged the enforcement of output. Save for the holiday Christmas and New those already snpixtaed to he live ones, Years thia is the first time sinre lie directed attention to the fact that speed within the coipora-tio- u that the weekly ixroduc-tio- n automobile is confined to eighteen limits haa fallen below two million tons. Labor troubles and transportation dis- miles an hour, whereas the state law one may travel at thirty. Arthur ability on account of had weather were Mys T. Lee tixik for his More subject eauses of the decline and make it lie Mid we now have eleven to forecast lust week V output. Laws. thousand of them with more crime Reports for the week ended Feliru-ar- y than ever Itcfore. Some two hundred 10th disclosed no general change hills and have been introduced thirly in ojierating conditions at the soft coal mines. Revere winter weather inter- in the house of representatives during I think we or fered with the return of empties and the present session. Mid h& the placement of ears at the mines in being legislated to death, Under our present laws very few losses The districts. increased many ir ds weeks--Thanksgivi- through trans)ortation disability in those districts, largely ofaet the improvement in transM)rtation in others. On the other hand the eold stormy weather was reflected in an appreciable improvement in demand, particularly in the states west of the Missis-sipIn every district where lack of demand had been a faetor in eliminating production the losses ascribed to no market declined. On the whole there was an increase in running time in spite of factors tending to curtail operations and production in creased. i. thw-man- CARBON RAILROAD TO BE RUNNING BY FIRST OF MAY eitizens are lawabiding. You must educate and not legislate people into good citizenship. Reading from the compiled ordinances of this city Frank L. Buckio called attention to the numerous obsolete ones and urged the better observance and more rigid enforcement of those "which are of importance to the citys welfare. In presenting County Laws Former Commisisoner Arthur E. Gibson suggested that outside automobile salesmen should be required to pay a Keens. lie asserted that four hundred and thirty-si- x thouMnd dollars had been spent on the roods of Carbon county in the past six years and Mid that popular sentiment now is against the iuue of more bonds. Uncompleted road work will have to remain aa it is until sentiment against more expenditures has subsided. Mayor Jones told of the difficulties in keeping minors out of prohibited places. He favored the old style horsewhip for the better enforcement of the rurfew law. Parents ore responsible for much of the delinquency, he said. The mayor is in favor of an automobile parking ordinance and of one regulating the speed of trains within the city limits as well as regulation of trains crossings. lrcsidcnt Gilmour appointed Farm Agent Madsen to select suitable trees for planting in Price as a substitute for the poplar and the eottonwood. Columbia Steel corporation expects to be breaking ground within a very few days between Springville and Provo for ita initial plant construction representing an exenditure in even figures of $3I5W0W- - This is the announcement of Ll F. Rains, its vice president. Monday, March 12th, has iteen tentatively fixed aa the date. Work is to be started simultaneously on the blast furnaces and byproduct coke ovens and it is intended to have them completed and to be turning out pigiron by April 1, 1924. The plans at thia time call for the erection of only first units of the furnaces and ovens, the former with a production capacity n of four hundred and fifty tons of and the ovens of six hundred and If you have reached the age of dii fifty tons of coke a day. The ultimate erction why not be discreet f units of more three calls for program eaeh or a total pigiron production of about two thousand tons and twenty-fiv- e BEGINNING TOMORROW, FREE SEEDS AT THE SUN OFFICE hundred tons of coke a (lay. The oven are the Becker type and it is es1 1 1 1 1 1 timated that the first unit installed U94HWW4999 q will produce besides six hundred and Through the courtesy of Sena- - 4 Smoot Keed tor ten and tons of coke, approximately fifty Bun haa re- Ion R Colton The Congressman million cubic feet of gas daily. Thi ceived for free distribution a quan- seekbe will to Rains, gas, according tlty of field, garden and flower eoeila that will he given away be- ing a market, as at present plans of ginning tomorrow (Saturday) the Columbia do not contemplate a March 3d, as long as they last to in need for gas its operation. (hose calling at this office. emAa soon as the initial plant site, They will go only to adulte to children with notes front-par- - or bracing about two hundred and forty ents. . Persons who live at a dla- acres, ia eleared work on the foundatanrefrom Price may have some tions will be started and it is estimated of each by addreMlng The Bun. There will be no charg for post- that by midsummer the monthly payage. They are free for the asking roll of the Columbia in Utah county a pleasure for The Sun to give S will aggregate about $175,060 to out. onthe But hear In mind none will be S In the opinion of officials furnished children under IS years Z ly factor that might delay construction of age without a written request activities would be inability to obtain T from parents. the site. This, however, is not given 1 1 serious consideration, as it is under- Wf bhx-kin- pig-iro- !! $200,-00- ii I 0. f |